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Elena
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Librarian. Former elementary school librarian, currently community college librarian. Esports faculty advisor.
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Hello from Berlin #NoKings
A goofy five year old girl holds a aign in front of the Brandenburg gate: “Europe wake up! They’re coming for your democracy too” W few hundred people near brandenburg gate “No kings you have friends everywhere” on a aign with frogs A few hundred people
October 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
jehreads.bsky.social
Almost forgot it was International Geocaching Day! Had to run out and grab one in some mighty hot weather. #geocache
International Geocaching Day souvenir
August 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Once Democrats take Congress, they should remove the Second Amendment with a "coding error." Prest-O change-O, that was easy!
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Aug 6
Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.
Sections of the U.S. Constitution Missing from Government Website
Articles I, Sections 9 and 10 are inaccessible on Congress-run portal, raising concerns over transparency and public access.
meidasnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Insanity

So student loan forgiveness is only not CoMMuNisM if you kidnap immigrants to get it?

What are we doing? 🇺🇸
July 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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kellyscaletta.bsky.social
There were 28 nationwide injunctions against Biden, and the Supreme Court didn't have an issue with any of them.

I wonder what changed.
June 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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al.com
Thirteen communities throughout the state of Alabama are joining a nationwide protest effort on June 14 in response to President Donald Trump’s $45 million dollar parade scheduled for the same day.
13 ‘No Kings’ protests planned in Alabama as Trump hosts military parade
"Real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.”
www.al.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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calltoactivism.bsky.social
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Republicans dragged Gov. Pritzker to Congress to scold him over “sanctuary” policies. Instead, he flipped the script - and TORCHED the Trump administration:
June 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
jehreads.bsky.social
I’m honestly shocked. I had no idea this was no longer available. I won’t type the bad words running through my head about this decision but there are plenty!
June 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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davidleavitt.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.
June 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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freedomreadproject.bsky.social
This quote reminds us that open, honest conversations between parents and kids are the antidote to fear… and fear is what fuels censorship. When we trust young readers and engage with them about what they read, we build critical thinking, connection, and empathy.

#FreedomToRead #EndBookBans
Quote from Judy Bloom that says let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear.
June 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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June 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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kagrox.bsky.social
January 6th insurrectionist carries a Confederate flag through the Capitol, as a lone policeman looks on.
June 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Healthcare for seniors is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.

Food for hungry kids is *not* waste, fraud, or abuse.

A $45 military parade for a draft dodging felon *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.

Paying the National Guard to attack US citizens *is* waste, fraud, and abuse.
June 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.
June 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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kim.senate.gov
The math isn't adding up: if threats to our cybersecurity are increasing, why is the staffing and funding for programs to protect us, like CISA, going down? It's clear the Trump administration isn't actually concerned with our country's cybersecurity and infrastructure protection.
June 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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alikat747.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Right?
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 5
And this is why having American aviation communications rely on Starlink was always a terrifying idea
June 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries.

Now she's running for state house.

eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
What does India May want to accomplish in the Iowa House? May said she first got involved in Iowa politics earlier this year when she attended a town hall held by the state legislators in her area, including Thomson. In part, May said she went to oppose a bill that would deny state funding to libraries that are members of the American Library Association and Iowa Library Association, and another that would remove an exemption in Iowa's obscenity law that shields libraries and educational institutions. Neither bill ultimately passed. "I’m a nurse and a librarian, and I went to my first town hall this year to advocate for libraries and realized that there were a lot more pieces of legislation that were harmful on the Iowa level that I didn’t even hear about until it was too late," she said.
June 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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archive.org
Thank you, Dr. Carla Hayden, for your leadership and commitment to ensuring access to knowledge for all. Your service as Librarian of Congress has inspired a generation of librarians, archivists, and readers.

Photo: Dr. Hayden meets with Internet Archive founder @brewster.kahle.org, 2017.
Dr. Carla Hayden talks with Brewster Kahle at the San Francisco Public Library.
May 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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May 3, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Casualties in World War II:

Soviet Union: 26,600,000.

United States: 407,316.

And the Russians got to Berlin first.

So, no, the United States did not do "more than any other Country, by far, in producing a victorious result 'on' World War II." That is just propaganda.
May 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
jehreads.bsky.social
Excellent news.
al.com AL.com @al.com · Apr 30
Under HB247, all state and local entities and their employees would have been required to use the term Gulf of America “in all newly created maps, documents, educational materials, websites, official communications, and other resources.”
Bill to recognize Gulf of America in maps, school materials fails in Alabama Senate
Sen. Linda Coleman-Madison, D-Birmingham, on Tuesday was the latest of several Democratic lawmakers to question the bill’s necessity.
www.al.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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cattryes.bsky.social
Shout out to Jalen Hurts and “scheduling conflicts” 💚🦅💚 #eagles
April 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM